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Unsupported Hardware watermark

10-28-2009, 09:27 PM

Hello, I have an xfx Radeon HD 5770 card, and I know its not fully supported by the latest fglrx yet, but modesetting and 3d works to a degree. Is there a way to get rid of the AMD Unsupported Hardware watermark, as I know its not fully supported?

Wow, gross. I thought 9.10 was supposed to add 5750 and 5770 support. In any case many thanks. I have ubuntu 9.10 (catalyst and ubuntu) with a 5770 and that fixed the problem. The card seems okay so far. Seems kinda silly to have to binary hack the driver, but otherwise video playback, compiz, and related works. I'm having some cursor problems on my dual head when I get near certain areas of the screen the cursor disappears.

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Hi, a month ago i had the same problem but with Kano's code it work, but now i update to ubuntu 10.4 and i can't turn on the "Meny->System->Preferences->"Appearence"" (portuguese ubuntu don't know the english word), so i wnet to hardware and drivers menu and it said to Activate the driver FGLRX ATI/AMD but i got this whindow:

SystemError: installArchives() failed

ALSO in update manager i have an update "fglrx(new instalation)" and when i try to install i got this error: (I will try to translate the best i can)
first i got this window:
"you have 1 broken package in your system ! use the filter "broken" to trace then."
i close the window and then it star to install but pop other window:
"Error details

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu3_i386.deb: subprocesso novo script pre-installation retornou erro do status de sa?da 1
"
i close the window and other pop

" update is not completed (...)

i couldn't copy the text soo i print screen it
"

i hope you can understand sorry my english,
waiting for help
thanks

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Hi, a month ago i had the same problem but with Kano's code it work, but now i update to ubuntu 10.4 and i can't turn on the "Meny->System->Preferences->"Appearence"" (portuguese ubuntu don't know the english word), so i wnet to hardware and drivers menu and it said to Activate the driver FGLRX ATI/AMD but i got this whindow:

SystemError: installArchives() failed

ALSO in update manager i have an update "fglrx(new instalation)" and when i try to install i got this error: (I will try to translate the best i can)
first i got this window:
"you have 1 broken package in your system ! use the filter "broken" to trace then."
i close the window and then it star to install but pop other window:
"Error details

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu3_i386.deb: subprocesso novo script pre-installation retornou erro do status de sa?da 1
"
i close the window and other pop

" update is not completed (...)
i couldn't copy the text soo i print screen it
"

i hope you can understand sorry my english,
waiting for help
thanks

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The problem is when you run the ati-installer purely on U and then install fglrx via jockey/apt your system will break. Somebody reported that my script fixed it. Be sure that you NEVER run the ati installer on U again. Only via

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i don't understand what you mean, i'm really dump on linux, could you tell me the what i have to do or write to resolve this problem? like i said in version 9.4 i had that unsupported watermark, i download the last driver, install with a command and do that code in console, saw this in a post of yours.
now i update to 10.4 in update manager, and i have this error of "broken package" and fglrx update dont install. i already try do:

[Warning] Uninstall : inst_path_default or inst_path_override
does not exist in /etc/ati. This suggests that the ATI driver
is not installed, the ATI driver is only partially installed,
or the current ATI driver installed is an older version than the
one this script was designed for. Both files listed above are
required for determining where installed files are located.
To force uninstallation of the driver by guessing where the
uninstallation files are located, set the FORCE_ATI_UNINSTALL
environment variable and re-run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh (this is not recommended).